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It’s the nightmare scenario: a consumer drone flying into a jet engine. But no one has actually done the tests that could reveal what would happen and inform safety.
That’s strange, given the increasing risk of such an incident. We need to know if it could cause an aircraft engine to explode in what is known as an “uncontained failure”, with hot, fast-spinning engine parts being shed in all directions, potentially piercing wings, fuel tanks and even the cabin.
The only airliner versus drone safety tests done in the UK so far were to assess what
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